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View synonyms for canoness
canoness
[ kan-uh-nis ]
noun
- a member of a Christian community of women living under a rule but not under a vow.
canoness
/ ˈkænənɪs /
noun
- RC Church a woman belonging to any one of several religious orders and living under a rule but not under a vow
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Gender Note
What's the difference between canoness and canon? See -ess.
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Example Sentences
Very often was the Canoness constrained to absorb herself in her little illuminated prayer-book.
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The Canoness he descried escaping, unseen by them, with the aid of a gardener, across the pond into the park.
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She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.
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All the voices, the voice of the merciful canoness excepted, demand with Countess Ursine, "Justice and vengeance!"
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And a Parisian market-woman spoke better French than a German canoness with sixty-four ancestors.
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